...despair. The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel-houses and the grave ! THE DYING GLADIATOR. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow • From the red...

...merely recherche illustration suggested by thought or perception of analogies purely intellectual : — "And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower." Nothing can be more forced than the comparison of drops of blood to drops of rain....

...worms — on battle-plains or listed spot? 1250 Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — 1255 And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,...

...infant Washington? Has Earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore? ****** urifies from self : droop 'd head, sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red...

...your Brutus, He '11 think your mother chides, and leave you so. Shakespeare. 137 The Trying (gladiator I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red...

...think your mother chides, and leave you so. Shakespeare. 137 The "Dying Cjladiator . < . I se^before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand —...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red...

...are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon liis hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers...and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Era ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not, — his...

...listed spot? Both are but theatres— where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : 10 He leans upon his hand— his manly brow Consents...ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, 15 Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased...

...both his wife and himself that they may escape capture, or to the single figure of the Dying Gaul: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower. . . . The Laocoon group, representing the priest of Neptune and his two sons attacked by the two serpents...

...represents a past scene or event as one now passing before the eyes of the audience or the reader. J see before me the gladiator lie; He leans upon his...conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low. — Byron. Synecdoche. — A figure in which a part is used to represent the whole, as when "fifty...